PSA: software for parental structure analysis of seed or seedling patchesJ J Robledo-Arnuncio
Department of Forest Ecology and Genetics, INIA Forest Research Centre CIFOR, Madrid, Spain
Mol Ecol Resour 12:1180-9. 2012
..PSA should be of interest to plant biologists studying the interplay between dispersal, demography and genetics, as well as plant-animal interactions...
- Joint estimation of contemporary seed and pollen dispersal rates among plant populations
J J Robledo-Arnuncio
Department of Forest Ecology and Genetics, Forest Research Centre CIFOR, INIA, Ctra de La Coruña Km 7 5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Mol Ecol Resour 12:299-311. 2012
..The method should be of interest to researchers and managers assessing broad-scale nonequilibrium seed and pollen gene flow dynamics in plants...
- Estimating gametic introgression rates in a risk assessment context: a case study with Scots pine relicts
J J Robledo-Arnuncio
Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Forestales, CIFOR INIA, Carretera de la Coruña Km 7 5, Madrid 28040, Spain
Heredity (Edinb) 103:385-93. 2009
..This study presents a method by which researchers can facilitate decision making within a gene flow risk assessment context...
Estimation of the seed dispersal kernel from exact identification of source plantsJuan J Robledo-Arnuncio
Laboratoire Genetique et Environnement, Universite de Montpellier II, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Mol Ecol 16:5098-109. 2007
..Finally, we illustrate the use of the proposed method with a previously published empirical example for the animal-dispersed tree species Prunus mahaleb...
- Pollen dispersal in spatially aggregated populations
Juan J Robledo-Arnuncio
Laboratoire Genetique et Environnement, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, Universite de Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Am Nat 168:500-11. 2006
..Overall, our results indicate that isolation-by-distance models in plants should not ignore the effects of intraspecific spatial aggregation on effective dispersal...
A new method of estimating the pollen dispersal curve independently of effective densityJuan J Robledo-Arnuncio
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 8551, USA
Genetics 173:1033-45. 2006
..Our results also show that accurately estimating the shape of the tail of the pollen dispersal function by means of indirect methods remains a very difficult challenge...
- Climatic niche and neutral genetic diversity of the six Iberian pine species: a retrospective and prospective view
A Soto
Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Forestales, CIFOR INIA, Ctra de La Coruña Km 7 5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Mol Ecol 19:1396-409. 2010
..In the light of these results and hypotheses, we discuss some potential genetic consequences of impending climate change...
- Increased selfing and correlated paternity in a small population of a predominantly outcrossing conifer, Pinus sylvestris
J J Robledo-Arnuncio
, , ETSI de Montes, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Mol Ecol 13:2567-77. 2004
..The results of this study show that a severe size reduction may substantially affect the mating system of a wind-pollinated, typically outcrossed plant species...
- Isolation by distance in a continuous population under stochastic demographic fluctuations
J J Robledo-Arnuncio
Universite de Montpellier II, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, Montpellier Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 23:53-71. 2010
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- Measuring the genetic structure of the pollen pool as the probability of paternal identity
P E Smouse
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 94:640-9. 2005
..317, indicating substantial 'pollen structure' for the population. We also relate the direct measures of PPI to those available from indirect approaches, and show that they are generally comparable...
- Patterns of pollen dispersal in a small population of Pinus sylvestris L. revealed by total-exclusion paternity analysis
J J Robledo-Arnuncio
, , ETSIM, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Heredity 94:13-22. 2005
..Overall, results show that the number and distribution of potential pollen donors in small populations may strongly influence the patterns of effective pollen dispersal...
